Tye Campbell wrote to us with the following question: “Do you guys know how to take apart an iPhone? Specifically the 3G model, I can’t find any way to get to the display and I’d like to do my own screen replacement since mine is cracked but I have another one available to me from … Read More

There are times where you’ll want to manually set your IP address in Mac OS X, so how do you do it? * Launch ‘System Preferences’ from the Apple menu (or Spotlight) * Click on the “Network” icon * In the lower right, click on the ‘Advanced’ button * In the pulldown menu next to … Read More

You can delete specific pages from a PDF file with the built-in Mac Preview app, just select/highlight the page you want to delete and then hit the delete key. This is really useful for paring down large PDF documents if you only need a few select pages, this is bound to make any student or … Read More

iTunes 9 is great and has a lot of improvements, but changing the background color in Grid view from the nice easy-on-the-eyes dark to the bright retina torching white is not on my happy list. Now they made this different recently but Manish is still am not thrilled. Thankfully French designer Damien Erambert has come … Read More

If you know a phrase that is contained within a document, but can’t remember the document file name, try searching for the phrase that you know appears within the document. Make this phrase search even more precise by putting the phrase itself within quotation marks, for example “all rights reserved” will find all files that … Read More

You can instantly create a new Stickies note from within Safari by highlighting text, images, or both, and then hitting Command+Shift+Y I just recently discovered this and use it nonstop now, it’s a great way to gather information, images, links, and whatever else, to keep handy for later.

If you know the file type of a document you are looking for, you can pre-qualify search results by using operators within Spotlight. As you can see in the screenshot, I pre-qualified my search for ‘asia’ with the PDF filetype operator, which led Spotlight to only search PDF documents for the search term. You can … Read More

You can access the File Inspector, a Quicklook style version of the Get Info command, by highlighting any file and then hitting the Command+Option+i keys, this is very useful because it allows you to select other files and pull up data about them upon click/selection rather than opening another Get Info window. This behaves very … Read More

If you’ve ever needed to get music off of your iPod or iPhone and onto a different machine, then you’ll know it’s not always as easy as you’d like it to be. Let’s say you got a new computer or lost your old one, but still have your iPhone or iPod with music files on … Read More

You can restore the original location of a file that has been sent to the Trash very easily. Select an item in the Trash and hit the Command+Delete keys to send that item to it’s location prior to the Trash. If you’re not a fan of keystrokes, try Right-Clicking on the file within the Trash … Read More